8th Annual ARNOVA-Asia Conference
Adapting to Crisis: Reshaping Nonprofit
and Social Economy Sectors in and after the Wake of COVID-19
June 21-22, 2024┃Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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Conference Registration now open!
Rates | Regular Rates |
| Members & Non-members | |
Regular | $100 |
Students | $50 |
Theme & Call for Submissions
We are pleased to announce an open call for submissions to the 2024 ARNOVA Asia Conference, which will take place at Yonsei University on June 21-22, 2024. The conference is co-organized by Yonsei University’s graduate school of Social Welfare, the Korean Academy of Social Welfare (KSWE), Korean Association of Nonprofit Organization Research (KANPOR), and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
ARNOVA is the U.S.-based, international association that connects scholars, educators, and practice leaders to strengthen the field of nonprofit and philanthropic research in order to improve civil society and human life. ARNOVA is a neutral, open forum committed to strengthening the research about and helping shape better practice in these realms.
The theme for the 2024 ARNOVA Asia Conference is “Adapting to Crisis: Reshaping Nonprofit and Social Economy Sectors in and after the Wake of COVID-19.”
Scholars in the field of nonprofit and voluntary action studies have traditionally concentrated on traditional forms of assistance and the roles of organizations within the sector. However, the present era is marked by rapid and transformative changes, propelled by the emergence of cutting-edge technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Machine Learning, and advanced data analytics. In parallel, within most societies, we anticipate the emergence of new social values brought forth by social economy organizations, including social enterprises, cooperatives, and B-corps. These organizations are redefining boundaries within the sector, blurring distinctions that were once clear.
Furthermore, the nonprofit sector has been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has prompted a swift and multifaceted response from organizations within the sector. In the wake of this crisis, the need to adapt, evolve, and innovate has become paramount. This conference theme offers a platform to explore the comprehensive implications of these rapid changes:
We are inviting conference submissions that address this conference theme in a wide range of nonprofit, charity & philanthropy, and social economy fields including, but not limited to:
- Giving & Volunteering
- Corporate Philanthropy
- Nonprofit Innovation & Impact
- Policy Advocacy and Civic Engagement
- Social Value and Performance of Social Enterprises and Co-ops
- Collaborations & Partnerships within and across Sectors
- Trends and Issues in Nonprofit Governance and Management
- New Technologies, Big Data, and Nonprofit Organizations
- Human and Financial Resource Management of Nonprofits
- COVID-19's Impact on Nonprofit and Social Economy Sectors
- Other Related Significant Topics
Important Dates & Guide
- Submissions open: December 20, 2023
- Deadline for proposal submission (no more than 500 words) EXTENDED:
February 21February 28 - Notification of acceptance: March 8, 2024
- Program publication: April 23, 2024
For any inquiries regarding the program, please contact Dr. Seongho An, by email at Seongho.An@ucf.edu. For logistic related questions and inquiries regarding the submission form please contact conference@arnova.org.
We look forward to seeing you at 2024 ARNOVA Asia Conference.
Sincerely Yours,
Chulhee Kang, Professor
School of Social Welfare, Yonsei University
Co-host of 2024 ARNOVA Asia Conference
Advisory Committee
 Japan | Aya Okada is Associate Professor of Civil Society Studies at Tohoku University Graduate School of Information Sciences in Sendai, Japan. Trained in sociology and policy studies, her research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of communication process used by nonprofits as they seek to sustain their voluntary support in societies undergoing economic, social, and political change. Aya has a PhD in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. She currently serves on the board of International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), Japan NPO Research Association (JANPORA), and Japan Association of Social Relations (JASR). |
 United States | Chao Guo is Professor and Faculty Director of Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership Program in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Chao’s research interests focus on the intersection between nonprofit and voluntary action and government. His award-winning research includes many published articles in highly respected and influential journals and two co-authored books. Chao currently is President-Elect of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action; prior to that, he served two terms on the ARNOVA Board and as Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the premier journal in the field. Globally, he has helped ARNOVA create a regional conference series in Asia (ARNOVA-Asia). For this effort, he received the Distinguished Achievement and Service Award from ARNOVA in 2019. |
 United States | Professor Charlotte Ren, Ph.D. Charlotte Ren is Robert A. Fox Leadership International Faculty Director and Professor of Practice in Strategy and Innovation at Partnership for Innovation, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Leadership, and Organization (PICCLO), School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. She is also Senior Fellow at Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. Charlotte holds a Ph.D. in Management and an M.A. in Economics from UCLA, a bachelor’s degree in International Politics and a minor degree in Law from Peking University (China).Charlotte’s research focuses on innovation management and competitive strategy and has been published in top academic journals in the field of management such as Management Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, and Strategic Management Journal. Her research won the Inaugural IDEA Award in 2008 from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, the largest academic community of management scholars with over 18,000 members from nearly 120 countries. She served as a Representative-at-Large for two leading academic communities of management scholars, the Academy of Management (Entrepreneurship Division) and the Strategic Management Society (Competitive Strategy Interest Group). Charlotte has taught courses at the undergraduate, MPA, MBA, and Ph.D. levels on strategy, innovation management, entrepreneurship, and cross-sector collaboration. She received numerous teaching awards including the 2017 Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division. A social entrepreneur by heart, Charlotte designed, launched, and served as the founding faculty director (2013-2016) of Penn Restorative Entrepreneurship Program, an innovative initiative geared towards helping formerly incarcerated individuals to become socially responsible entrepreneurs. The program has garnered wide press attention and is featured in a forthcoming PBS documentary. More information about Charlotte’s research, teaching and service can be found on her professional website www.charlotteren.net. Research Areas Competitive strategy, innovation management, corporate entrepreneurship, organizational learning |
 Korea | Je-Eun Seok is Head of the Department of Social Welfare at Halym University and President of the Korean Academy of Social Welfare (KSWE). She finished her undergraduate study and received a Ph.D. from Ewha Womans University. Professor Seok is an expert in elderly welfare policy, pension policy, long-term care policy, and social service policy. Her research has focused on income security, care policy and long-term care, gender and welfare, and elderly welfare. |
 Taiwan | Professor, Department of Public Management and Policy, Tunghai UniversityAdjunct/Visiting Professor, The Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) Country Expert, V-Dem Project Secretary General, Taiwan Councilors Forum (TCF) Standing Supervisor, Social Impact Institute of Taiwan Board Member, Chinese Society for Public Administration
José Chiu-C. Chen is Professor at the Department of Public Management and Policy, Tunghai University, where his teaching and research are focused on non-profit management, personnel administration reform, social innovation, local & urban governance. Professor Chen received his PhD from National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He was elected as the president of TASPAA (Taiwan Association for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs) in 2019. He has served as a committee member or consultant to various government agencies, NPOs, and social enterprises as well. He was a Fulbrighter visiting scholar at the Sol Price School, University of Southern California (USC), and visiting scholar at the College of Urban & Public Affairs, Portland State University, United States. |
 China | Ming Wang is Professor in the Department of Public Policy & Management at Tsinghua University. He received master’s degree in World Economy, Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C and Ph.D. in International Development, Nagoya University. Professor Ming Wang is an expert in Public Management, NGO, and Civil Society. |
 China | Current Position: Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Administration, National Chengchi University Education:
Experience :
Major Achievements
NSC Special Outstanding Talent Award |
 Japan | Naoto Yamauchi is former Professor of public economics at Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University. He taught public and civil society issues there since 1994. He received B.A. from Osaka University, M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and Ph.D. from Osaka University. He was Visiting Fellow at Yale University in 1997, Faculty Fellow at RIETI, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Visiting Senior Researcher of the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Cabinet Office. He also served as a board member of ISTR and a member of the editorial board of Voluntas, one of the leading journals of the field of civil society research. He is a founding member and currently President of JASR, Japan Association of Social Relations. He was President of JANPORA, Japan NPO Research Association which he and his colleagues founded. His research focuses on empirical analysis of the nonprofit sector, giving and volunteering, corporate social responsibility, social capital, subjective well-being, and issues on public private partnership. He is author of numerous research reports, academic articles and books. |
 United States |Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Director, Muslim Philanthropy InitiativeDr. Shariq Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Director of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Shariq has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Philanthropic Studies from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. He also has a JD from the McKinney School of Law at Indiana University and holds a B.A. in History from the University of Indianapolis. Shariq authors research on Muslim philanthropy and the Muslim nonprofit sector. Most recently, he conducted a national survey of full-time Islamic schools in the United States. This project resulted in the book (that he co-authored) Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions, published in November 2017. Shariq also serves as the co-editor of the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society, Journal on Education in Muslim Societies, and as the Series Editor of the Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society Book Series. All three of which are published by Indiana University Press. He has served as a nonprofit practitioner for over 20 years for international, national, regional, and local nonprofit organizations. Previously, Shariq served as the Executive Director of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). ARNOVA is a leading international association that connects scholars, teachers, and practice leaders in research on nonprofit organizations, voluntary action, philanthropy, and civil society. |
 Hong Kong | Wai-Fung (Danny) Lam is Head of the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance (CCSG), and Co-Director of the Centre for Water Technology and Policy (CWTP) at The University of Hong Kong. He finished his undergraduate study at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and received a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Lam is an expert in common-pool resource management, institutional policy analysis, public policy process, public governance, and civil society. His research has focused on the design of efficient institutional arrangements for the governance and management of public resources, a core issue in public administration, sustainable development, and civil society.Charlotte’s research focuses on innovation management and competitive strategy and has been published in top academic journals in the field of management such as Management Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, and Strategic Management Journal. Her research won the Inaugural IDEA Award in 2008 from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, the largest academic community of management scholars with over 18,000 members from nearly 120 countries. She served as a Representative-at-Large for two leading academic communities of management scholars, the Academy of Management (Entrepreneurship Division) and the Strategic Management Society (Competitive Strategy Interest Group). Charlotte has taught courses at the undergraduate, MPA, MBA, and Ph.D. levels on strategy, innovation management, entrepreneurship, and cross-sector collaboration. She received numerous teaching awards including the 2017 Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division. A social entrepreneur by heart, Charlotte designed, launched, and served as the founding faculty director (2013-2016) of Penn Restorative Entrepreneurship Program, an innovative initiative geared towards helping formerly incarcerated individuals to become socially responsible entrepreneurs. The program has garnered wide press attention and is featured in a forthcoming PBS documentary. More information about Charlotte’s research, teaching and service can be found on her professional website www.charlotteren.net. Research Areas Competitive strategy, innovation management, corporate entrepreneurship, organizational learning |
 Korea | Professor, School of Design and Business Administration, Hongik UniversityPresident, Korean Association of NPO Research (KANPOR) Council Member, National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC) |
 China | Xiaoguang Kang is Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. He is also Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Management, Tsinghua University China Youth Development Foundation, vice chairman The director of Foundation for Poverty Alleviation Narada Foundation director China Social Entrepreneur Foundation, director Red Cross Society of China Jet Li One Foundation, volunteer experts Rural Women Council Global Village Council Chairman of the Award Committee of the Chinese poverty elimination. Professor Xiaoguang Kang is an expert in Nonprofit Management, state-society relationship, political development & political stability, and political culture. |
 Japan | Dr. Yu Ishida has been a professor at the Faculty of Human Welfare Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, since April 2023, after being a professor at the School of Project Design, Miyagi University. His research interest is in economics and management of public and nonprofit organizations. Currently, he also serves as President of the Japan NPO Research Association (JANPORA), Editor-in-Chief of the "Japan Journal of Social Relations," Chief representative of the authorized Nonprofit Corporation Morino Dengonban Yururu, Chairperson of the Miyagi Prefecture Public Interest Accreditation Committee, and Co-Chair of ARNOVA Asia 2023 Conference. |
 China | Chairman of Zhejiang Gongshang University Professor at the School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University Dean of the Academy of Social Governance, Zhejiang University
Dr. Yu Jianxing is a preeminent scholar and administrator specializing in governance and public administration. He currently serves as the Chairman at Zhejiang Gongshang University and is a Professor at the School of Public Affairs at Zhejiang University, where he is also the Dean of the Academy of Social Governance. Dr. Yu earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fudan University and has cultivated an extensive body of work in his areas of expertise. He acts as the Chief Editor for the Journal of Chinese Governance and serves as the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education's Committee for Public Management Education in China. Dr. Yu's advisory roles extend to various expert committees for China’s national and provincial governmental bodies. He is the author of 20 scholarly books, including Government Transformation in the Digital Age(2023), and is a co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China(2019). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Social Sciences in China, Management World, Political Science Research (in Chinese), Public Administration Review, and Public Management Review. Dr. Yu has twice received the First-Class Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences from China's Ministry of Education, in 2013, 2016 and 2024. He has also been accorded the Changjiang Distinguished Professorship by the Ministry of Education and has been recognized as a leading talent under the National "Ten Thousand Talents" Program in Philosophy and Social Sciences. |
Program Committee
 China | Associate ProfessorSchool of Journalism & Communication Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China His research interests encompass digital communication, nonprofit organizations, and community governance. He obtained his Ph.D.at the School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University in China. Chao was also a Visiting Scholar (Joint Ph.D.) at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the Best Paper Award (Elizabeth H. Nelson Prize) from World Association for Public Opinion Research. |
 Taiwan | Associate professor in the Department of Regional and Social Development at the National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan.My research interests focus on environmental governance, network collaboration, and non-profit organization management. |
 South Korea | Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate School of Public Policy and Civic Engagement at Kyung Hee University.
She serves as a member of the editorial board for the journal “Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance. Dr. Kim’s scholarly interests and activities have been consistently focused on child welfare workforce issues, occupational stress for helping professionals, and organizational climate or culture in human service organizations. She authored scholarly manuscripts, including topics on safety culture for child serving human service organizations, diagnosing organizational culture for Korean nonprofit organizations, and exploration of thematic trends within articles published in Human Service Organizations journal. |
United States | Associate Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark, Directs the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program.
His research interests lie in the area of public and nonprofit management, with a focus on government contracting, nonprofit-government relations, and nonprofit financial management. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Public Administration Review, and Public Management Review. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Public Performance & Management Review. He received his Ph.D. in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014.
United States | Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida
His research focuses on E-advocacy of nonprofit organizations and digital technology in nonprofit management. Before joining UCF, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice. Seongho also worked as an assistant manager on the Corporate Social Responsibility team at LG Chemical. He received his Master of Social Welfare as well as his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Bachelor of Business Administration from Yonsei University in South Korea.
United States | Associate professor at University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Tamaki Onishi is an Associate professor and teaches courses in the Master of Public Affairs (MPA) Program including Nonprofit Management and Leadership and Philanthropy and Resource Development. She also advises our nonprofit management certificate students. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her current research involves entrepreneurial and institutional theories on social entrepreneurship and investment. She also conducted comparative research on fundraising and launched international projects promoting philanthropy in Japan in conjunction with Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and major nonprofits, such as United Ways. With funding form the Association of Fundraising Professionals, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Japan Foundation and other funders, she published her work in peer-reviewed journals and national studies on philanthropy, including International Journal of Educational Advancement and Giving USA. Prior to her academic career, she worked for both nonprofits and for-profit firms, such as WNET in New York and Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan, for over a decade.
United States | Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Policy.
Her work uses mixed methods and computational approaches to investigate how nonprofits and foundations advance social and policy change through philanthropy, leadership, and social media advocacy. She has published in leading journals such as Public Management Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Voluntas, and Nonprofit Management and Leadership. Her research has been recognized by the Editors’ Prize for Best Scholarly Paper in Nonprofit Management and Leadership, ARNOVA Best Conference Paper Award, and RGK-ARNOVA President’s Research Award.
New Zealand | Senior Lecturer of Public Management and PhD Programme Director at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Wonhyuk’s research interests lie in the areas of HRM, digital government, performance management, law enforcement organizations, and Asian public policy. Wonhyuk’s research articles have appeared in leading international journals in the field, such as JPART, PAR, and GIQ, and he has been involved in research projects funded by diverse public and non-profit institutions in the US, New Zealand, and South Korea. He is an editorial board member for Public Administration, the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, and the Korean Journal of Public Administration, and review editor of the International Review of Public Administration.
China | Professor, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, China
Deputy Dean for the Academy of Social Governance, Zhejiang University, China
His research focus on nonprofit development, government-nonprofits relationship, digital technology in nonprofit management. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Public Administration Review, and Public Management Review. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Chinese Governance. He received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Zhejiang University in 2014.
South Korea | Professor, Department of Public Policy and Management, Yonsei University
Director of the Institute for Welfare State Research, Yonsei University in South Korea.
Before joining Yonsei, He was on the faculty at the University of Oxford, the University of Bath, and Korea University. He acted as Chair of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network. (2021-2023) and is currently serving as Chair of the Academy of Critical Social Welfare. His research interests include ageing and public policy, social investment policy, innovation and social policy, comparative welfare state theories, and East Asian social policy. He has published many articles in international journals such as Policy and Society, International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of European Social Policy, and Social Indicators Research. His recent book includes Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia (Policy Press, 2021).
Japan | Professor of Department of Sociology, Toyo University, Tokyo.
She affiliated with St. Louis University as adjunct professor from 1995-2001, and with the University of Missouri St. Louis as an exchanging professor in 2007, in the US.
Her research interests center on privation of public human services and nonprofit service organizations. Her publications include: Suda, Y., 2023, Impact of COVID-19 on the exit patterns of service organizations participating in the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) system, Social Policy and Labor Studies, 14(3); Suda, Y., Hiraoka, K., and Morikawa, M. (Eds.), 2018, Long-term care in Korea, Taiwan and Japan, Toshindo: Tokyo; Suda, Y., 2014, Changing relationships between nonprofit and for-profit human service organizations under the long-term care system in Japan. Voluntas, 25.
United States | Research Manager and Affiliate Faculty at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
He holds a Ph.D. in Public Affairs degree with a concentration in public and nonprofit management from the University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on nonprofit management, philanthropy, the use of digital media in the nonprofit sector, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and organizational leadership.
Dr. Noor serves on the board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Membership Committee. In addition, he serves as the Chair of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)’s Section on Professional and Organizational Development (SPOD), a Co-Chair for the ASPA Annual Global Public Administration Capstone Panel Committee, and as the Professional Development Chair of the Indiana Chapter of ASPA (INASPA). He also serves as a DEI Council Member of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
Dr. Noor is a proud recipient of the 2023 APPAM Equity and Inclusion Young Professional Fellowship, 2021 ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award, 2021 ASPA SICA David Gould Scholar Award, 2020 ARNOVA Doctoral Fellowship, and 2019 ARNOVA Diversity Fellowship. He was inducted into the Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society as a lifetime member in 2015 by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Dr. Noor is passionate about traveling, photography, and graphic design.